There's something in me that's generally skeptical about new technology. Recently I've been trying to understand why I'm slightly under-whelmed by Silverlight. On the face of it, having a truly cross-platform CLR sounds absolutely incredible. I've invested the last 6 years of my career and the majority of my coding for the CLR, why am I not jumping up and down for joy?
I think it might be because what's really exciting to me these days are these addictive technologies like
Twitter, that you can create with very simple very thin client techniques that don't require something like Silverlight to work. Perhaps this is where I'm not quite seeing the (silver) light. To really try to sort out what goes into an addictive application, I'm trying to explore whether or not addictive technologies have things in common. I think they do
This blog post continued over on my twitter account:....
A final thought about Addictive Technology is that it helps if it's mobile. If I can't do it on my phone at a stoplight, I'm not going to become addicted. Silverlight is just one more thing I need to be sitting down at my desk for.
-Brendan